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Friday, January 6, 2012

Weekend Wishes

Kopp Disclosure

(John 3:19-21)

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It was
inevitable; and I'm not talking about the Mormon taking on the, uh, whatever for the White
House.

After over seven
years of staff stability at First, our dearly beloved Jeremy accepted a
call to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to do something kinda like he was doing here but
without doing some of the stuff that he really didn't feel called to do
here so he could accept their call to do something there more in
line with what he feels called to do.

Or something like
that.

So we're
searching for someone who can never replace him.

Let me put that
another way.

We're searching
for someone who will build upon the best of what he had/did/is for the future.

Or something like
that.

Of course, being
the church's undershepherd,
I know what the search committee is thinking/discerning/deciding; and,
inevitably, people will think it was my idea no matter how untrue it is if you
know, as Bubba used to say, what is is.

But, uh, while
that was/is inevitable, that's not the inevitability that I'm gonna talk about.

Moretheless, We should be and do what He
called and gifted us to be do and do.

Read Romans 12
and 1 Corinthians 12 for more on that.

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Staying with
politics often masquerading as spirituality, one of the greatest current
influences on/in my noodle wrote this in response to the last two KDs: "I have been praying for a long time, daily, that
God in His grace and mercy will bless this country."

He went on,
"America is not the Kingdom of God; never has been and never will be until
and unless all sin in all of us is gone."

Well,
uh, yeah, that's true to Biblical revelation.

Continuing,
"To the extent that America was built on Biblical principles, we have been
blessed; in spite of internment of the Japanese, slavery, Jim Crow, eugenics,
massive abortion, etc."

Ouch in a prophetic kinda way.

Steamrolling
along, "We still have a relatively great but diminishing measure of
freedom...Maybe God giving us BBPBHO...[The KD title is catching on!]...was a sign both of His
judgment and His grace: 'this is a glimpse of the direction the US will go when
you get what you deserve and don't cry out for mercy - cry out for mercy so
instead I will pour out my blessings on this country.'"

Whoa.

Concluding,
"I am very interested in politics, and at the same time am very turned off
if not scared by politicians who portray themselves as saviors...I was not
happy when BBPBHO was elected..., but I still consider the possibility that God
gave him to us in answer to our prayers for His grace and mercy on our
country."

Deep.

Selah.

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Moving from
politics to spirituality, I've already picked the Packers to win their second
of three consecutive Super Bowls.

I think the
Bengals will win this weekend; and EEEEEEEli's
Cooooooomin'!

The rest of the favorites
will win; however, I'm really hopin' for an upset of Biblical proportions - a
David-over-Goliath-virgin-birth-resurrection-of-the-dead kinda upset - in one
game because it will force America to deal with what we've seemed to
ignore/insult/abandon in recent days to our increasingly obvious demise.